The Cars
Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, July 1979
AFTER THE FIRST 500,000 albums, you kind of stop rooting for a band. It's a familiar feeling of having discovered something ahead of the pack, watched and nurtured its growth, then seen it picked up in a more processed, more professional form by the mass audience.
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